29th Art Film Festival @ Aichi Arts Center 12th Floor Art Space A

The 29th Art Film Festival will take place on June 15, 2025, at the Aichi Arts Center's Art Space A in Nagoya, Japan. Organized by the Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, the festival features a special screening program centered on the film collective Kūzoku. Highlights include the premiere of Katsuya Tomita's 'Senkō Issenri ILHA FORMOSA' (2025), the 33rd original video work commissioned by the Aichi Arts Center, alongside earlier works by Tomita and Toranosuke Aizawa, such as 'The Daughter of Chiang Rai' (2012) and 'Flower Tale Babylon' (1997). The event also includes a talk session with Tomita and Aizawa after the screenings.

This festival matters because it continues the Aichi Arts Center's long-standing commitment to commissioning and preserving original video works under the theme of 'the body' and the concept of 'artistic complexity.' By showcasing the independent, self-distributed films of Kūzoku—a collective known for its uncompromising, uncommercial approach—the event highlights alternative modes of film production and exhibition in Japan. It also underscores the Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art's role in sustaining and presenting moving-image art as part of its permanent collection, bridging experimental cinema and museum practice.